Running-gear for wagons



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T. B. MAGKEY.

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No. 271,487. Patented Jan.30, 1883.

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THOMAS B. MAOKEY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

RUNNING'GEAR FOR WAGQNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 271,487, dated January 30, 1883.

' Application filed October 9, L883. (No menu.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS BELL MACKEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inWagons; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed {O drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figurel ot' the drawings is a bottom view of my device. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

The features constituting my invention are fully set forth in the following description and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Let A indicate the bolster-of the rear section of the wagon;and B, the hounds, secured to the bolster and to the reach 0.

I I) D are metal disks rigidly secured to the under side of the bolster and the hounds, and D D are rotary metal disks arranged to rotate upon the bolts d, which pass through the disks D, and serve to connect the hounds with the bolster. I

E indicates rotary metal disks arranged upon the bolts between the two pairs of disks, and provided with radial arms 0, upon which are arranged the anti-friction rollers E. These rollers travel in concave grooves formed in the opposing faces of the disks, and admit of the rotation of the lower disks with but little 5 friction.

The axle Fis provided with a collar or wheel, f, under each pair of disks, the said collars bearing on the rotary disks, and thereby causing them to revolve when the axle is turned.

Within boxes .G, which are secured to the bolster, are arranged anti-friction rollers g, against which the axle impinges, and below the boxes and the axle are arranged metal bands H,secured to the bolster and the boxes.

Within each box, above the axle,is arranged a horizontal anti-friction wheel, I. The collars f on the axle bear against these wheels, which prevent the axle from shifting endwise and avoid friction.

K K are diagonal braces secured to the rear ends of the hounds and the rear sides of the boxes, and K are brace rods or straps secured tothe rear ends of the bounds and carried forward to the cross-bar L, to which they are fastened. The lower ends of the bolts on which the rotary disks turn are fixed in these braces K, and said braces are strengthened by the transverse rods 1, secured both to the braces and to the bolster.

Inclined braces l are also secured to the bolster and to the bands which pass around the boxes, as a further means of strengthening the structure.

The reach is set in a mortise in the bolster, and a metal plate, M, secured to the bolster, so asto cross'the reach. The hounds are secured to the reach'by metal plates m, and a bolt,m, passed through the plates, the hounds, and the reach.

The front section of the wagon is provided with the same arrangement of disks and anti- .friction rollers as the rear section, and hence these need not be described in detail, but are simply lettered the same as those in the rear section. In the front section the bolts on which the rotary disks are mounted are fixed at their lower ends in brace-bars 111?, secured at their forward ends to the cross-bar N. This bar is secured to the under side of the hounds, and is strengthened in its position by means of thehorizontal braces secured to its ends and to the boxes. In this section of the wagon the bands which are secured to the under side'of the boxes also pass around the saidcross-bar N, and are secured to the bolster, as shown.

0 indicates a bent plate secured to the under side of the front bolster, so as to constitute a seat for the forward end of the reach, which passes between said plate and the bolster, and

is held in connection therewith by means of a bolt or pin, a.

1? indicates a rocking bolster secured upon the lower bar or bolster of the front section of the wagon by the pinn passing through a slot in the rocking bolster.

Q indicates the pole, secured by a bolt between the ends of the front set of hounds, and It the double-tree.

The longitudinal spring S and the two diverging springs S, connected with the doubletree, serve to equalize the draft.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my wagon is strong and durable.

A. stationary and a rotary disk, with anti friction rollers mounted on arms interposed I tuting axles for the rotary disksE and D, .un.

between said disks, is not new in this connection, and is not broadly claimed herein; and friction-balls and vertical friction-rollers in boxes have been used for a single wheel and axle prior to my invention. I do not therefore broadly claim these devices herein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a running-gear for carriages and wagons, the combination, with the axle provided with the collarsf, of the stationary and rotary disks 1) and I), and interposed antifriction 'rollers e, mounted on arms projecting from disks E, which are mounted on bolts d, constithe horizontal wheels I and g in the boxes (r substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the boxes of the front section of the running-gear, of the'bands secured to and passing around the boxes and the frontcross-bar, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS BELL MAOKEY. \Vitnesses:

W. W. THOMPSON, R. UHANEY. 

